All I've Ever Wanted and More

13. L.A.

"Good morning." I greeted Bella while walking into the kitchen with Ariana. She was making eggs and we sat at the table waiting for them. Soon enough she placed a plate in front of the both of us and we dug in.
"So I need to say, that I am really sorry about last night." Bella said sitting down also to eat her breakfast. "Its alright, really Bella." Ariana said looking up smiling.
I don't know if I should talk to Tyler today. That's one of the first things I thought about when I woke up and remembered what happened last night. First Tyler and then Mikey.
I will wait for him to call me if he wants to apologize for his behavior at the party. I can be stubborn like that sometimes. Bella interrupted my thoughts when she mentioned something that caught my attention.
"Wait what?" I repeated to hear what she said again. Bella sighed because she obviously didn't want to repeat herself. "I said, this morning I called my manager who called one of his friends to hook you guys up."
I looked at Ariana and then back to her.
Bella rolled her eyes, "To make it up to you for last night, I got you like a deal. You guys can perform in front of my managers hotel that he owns up in L.A. and I pulled a few strings to make sure a man is there so that maybe he can give you a record deal."
I jumped up out of my seat and I ran my fingers through my hair with the biggest smile on my face. Ariana stood up and we hugged ever so tightly. Then I ran up and hugged Bella and kissed her on the cheek. "You're the best! Thanks Bella!"
I was so excited I couldn't even finish my breakfast. "When should we leave to go up there?" I asked more calm now after collecting myself. "I have a limo registered under you guys for the day. It will bring you up there, you need to book a hotel and then perform tomorrow at 3 pm. Bring your guitar and come back down the next day or the day after, no later."

Bella opened up a cabinet door a rummaged through some papers and then pulled out an envelope. "What's that?" Ariana asked eyeing the paper.
Bella then pulled out loads of cash. I think she robbed a bank to get this much money.

"Holy crap!" I said as she handed it to me. "You can have this for your trip. But I want at least some change back." I looked at the money with an emotionless expression. She's crazy, but the best sister anyone could ever ask for! I hugged her once more and then put the money in my drawer in my nightstand by my bed.

I packed some things and then told Ariana we were going to buy her clothes up there since she barely had any here. I packed my guitar and then grabbed the money from my room.

We said our goodbyes to Bella when the limo eventually did arrive, and then made ourselves comfortable inside and headed for L.A.

"I can't believe this is actually happening." Ariana said holding my hand. I smiled and looked out of the window as the world passed by. The day was young and already good news has struck us. I thought about the trip and wondered how many covers we should do for the person coming to see us?

"How about we do three covers for the man." I suggested and Ariana nodded her head in agreement. I noticed she was looking at her phone and I was curious as to what she was doing. "What are you looking at?" I asked trying to see what was on her phone. "Oh nothing. I was just trying to find the cheapest hotel for where we could stay."

I starting thinking to see if I knew any places in L.A. to stay too, but I never came up with anything.

Ariana looked up at me, "I found a hotel! The Marriott?" I looked at the picture of it and the price on her phone and nodded my head. I guess it was going to be good enough on such short notice.

Throwing my arm around Ariana's shoulders, she leaned into me. During some points of the day like right now, I wondered is this was all a dream. I still felt like I was on vacation.

***

After about 2 hours, we arrived in L.A. It didn't look to be how I pictured it, but it was good enough. I was grateful that I was even here. "Lets go to the lobby and check into our rooms." I told her, taking our luggage out of the car and into the hotel lobby while she held the door open for me.